Labor's climate bill to enshrine in law a 2030 emissions reduction target has passed its first hurdle clearing the lower house.
It's been backed by the Greens, teal independents and Liberal MP Bridget Archer, who crossed the floor as the Coalition held firm on its opposition to the bill.
About an hour from Fiji’s capital is the village of Togoru. Here, even the dead aren’t safe from the impacts of climate change.
A few barnacle-covered tombstones are all that’s left of this village's ancestral graveyard.
Lavenia McGoon has lived in Togoru all her life. She got married and brought up her children in the small village.
Have you ever written a song by playing table tennis? Probably not. But that’s exactly what a group of Tasmanian children, and Tasmanian Aboriginal (pakana) rapper DENNI, want you to do.
‘Anthem Anthem Revolution’ is an art installation that was launched at the Birmingham 2022 Festival in the United Kingdom this week. The festival showcases global art and culture alongside the Birmingham Commonwealth Games, which starts on 28 July.
Love it or hate it, it's hard to escape the trending hairstyle of the moment: the mullet.
From the football field to school classrooms, the quintessential Australian haircut has made a grand comeback in recent years.
The mullet - hair long at the back while trimmed short on the sides and front - has long been championed by Australian men in the 80s.
NBA legend Shaquille O'Neal has added his support to the campaign for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
In Australia on a speaking tour, O'Neal appeared briefly at a press conference with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney in Sydney on Saturday.
For six long years, Al Daoud family have been searching for a country that would take them in as refugees.
The conflict in Syria forced the family of four to flee to Erbil in northern Iraq, where there are several refugee camps.
Australia's "needlessly complex" skilled migration system should be revamped to ensure the nation can attract the workers it needs to sustain a strong labour market, a new report has found.
The Deloitte Access Economics report, released on Sunday, found Australia's labour market was a stand-out success during the COVID-19 pandemic, as evidenced by the jobless rate falling to a near 50-year low 3.4 per cent in July.
The backlog of skilled worker visas is a "hopeless situation" but the government is working as fast as it can to get them processed, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says.
As businesses across multiple industries indicate they're being hampered by skills shortages, it's estimated more than 100,000 visas for overseas workers are yet to be processed.
